Let's talk about your favourite websites

Silvio

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Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 7:36am

I suppose you have seen quite a lot in the world wide web and so it's obvious that there should be such a thread... have you found some very interesting webpages out there which you'd like to share with us?

Here you are also allowed to advertise your own homepage! So go on and post it.

Critizine.com (English)
Here we are!

Perhaps it's interesting for the one or other to have a look through it to get some new ideas? I don't know.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. - Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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zatimi

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Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 12:57pm

www.randomwebsite.net is an amazing site. you will discover amazing website without search engine..try it guys, u will never know where it will take you...i love this website

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Silvio

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Wednesday, December 16th 2009, 9:32pm

What an interesting site... hm the idea is quite smart but my first hit was one from catholic women - not really my thing.

But to use that you have to be really bored I think... haha. But you are right: "u will never know where it will take you..."

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. - Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

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zatimi

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Thursday, December 17th 2009, 4:33am

yeah i love serendipity

yeah it is really nice discovering something new, something that you have no idea of from random website. I have come across japanese, korean and italian website which i will not find in search engine! so it is awesome for me, since i only know beginner french other than english and my mother tongue, bahasa malaysia which so happens to be identical with Bahasa indonesia. hehe silvio, catholic women, thats a great start, better luck next time pal. cheers

zatimi
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HyeIn

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Thursday, December 17th 2009, 12:22pm

I love serendipity too, It's a magic in dailylife.

I recommend
http://www.ted.com/

Many greats talk about thier study or ect.
Stephen Hawking, Al Gore and others' lecture?? are there.:3
And they provide subtitles too

(some of it give 25 language!)

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zatimi

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Thursday, December 17th 2009, 9:06pm

thanks for the web add!!

Thanks HyeIn, cool website, never heard of it before!! will check it out! Nice to know someone from korea in here! your country is beautiful, I have KBS world at home so sometimes i watch it on weekend, great dramas!!

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HyeIn

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Friday, December 18th 2009, 3:19am

I'm happy to meet you:3! What drama do you like?
Only basic TV setting is settled in my house, so I couldn't watch like XXX's world.
Few year ago, only had I listened NHK premium, BBC world? and so on.
But sometime I search Internet TV, I couldn't understand almost of it, but I can have a sensation like living in country which give that program with only watching or listening it.
now I hear Arab Internet radio service. they have Egypt, the Gulf, Iraq, Levent, Morocco, Sudan's program!
http://www.radiosawa.com/

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zatimi

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Sunday, December 20th 2009, 3:03am

google streetview

hi guys i just came across something better than google earth, it is google streetview, love to share this with you!! you can see the world in pictures in 360 degreees, so far ive seen america and europe. I dont think google covered asia yet but this is one amazing tool. Go for it friends!! Have a nice day...

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Nike

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Sunday, December 20th 2009, 10:14am

Google streetview is a bit freaky/scary somtimes, because it can happen that they've made pictures of your room :O That happened to a friend of mine. It's just a bit weird and a little less privacy xD. For the rest the site is quite ok.

Let's see.. other nice websites...
- Youtube always does the trick xD, quite a cool website if you just have to find that one song or episode. Also use it to upload my Disney amv thingys

.

- mrsnesbit.proboards.com - if you're looking for a nice Disney forum

"A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Cicero

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leo781006

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Sunday, December 20th 2009, 1:27pm

My favourite websites.......

Hi every one =)

This is my first time to use that,

well ,My favourite websites.......

Let me think.........,

I usually like to go search for some people blog ,or search about "art"websites .

I just only use the website in Chinese interface,

(yahoo,MSN,Youtube.......etc)

(But I will still learning English,)

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arianne_nl

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Monday, December 21st 2009, 2:52pm

Mine are:

www.flickr.com (of course because my hobby is photography)
some site of uni (but just because I have to check it stay up to date)
youtube (I guess most of you would agree )
google
facebook

and that's where my inspiration for now stops

Just be yourself, there are enough 'others'!

Flickr

And most probably got my BA degree!! yaaaay!

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HyeIn

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Monday, December 21st 2009, 8:19pm

my favorite shopping site
I'm always window-shopping. T3Td
http://milkcocoa.co.kr
http://sallyslaw.com
http://www.flyingfish33.com/

and famous open market'_')/
http://gmarket.co.kr(** too many image, so loading is required, and it use many space of RAM.)

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zatimi

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Monday, December 21st 2009, 9:55pm

wow cool sites

hi hyeln, cools sites you posted, i saw some parts of IRIS and boys over flowers on KBS, basically i watched anything that is on, recently i saw Mariah Carey on Sketchbook aired on KBS!
Arianne, i love FLICKR, i have been using that for the past 5 years, glad you like it, there's another good one, Photobucket!!

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Nike

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Saturday, May 29th 2010, 12:43pm

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
Really great site that sells books for lower prices than in regular shops and has free shipping to a lot of countries

Really cool.
Negative point... you need a Visa/credit card to order, which I still haven't got

(perhaps that's better for my bankaccount

)

http://www.matthewreilly.com
The website of one of my fav authors. Quite a fancy site.
In the same genre: http://www.thiemeyer.de - the site from the German author Thomas Thiemeyer (anyone on here who's heard about him?

)

"A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Cicero

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local_lad

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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 10:54am

Fav websites.... so many to choose, so little time to browse..!

For secondhand/new and out of print books - it has to be www.abebooks.com

For snippits of techie stuff www.wired.com and www.theregister.co.uk

and for a website of totally random stuff that causes discussions and arguments: http://www.philosophersnet.com/

and a pet favourite when totally bored... http://www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html (how to build the worlds best paper airplane)

enjoy!

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Nike

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Thursday, June 10th 2010, 4:46pm

^ abebooks can be quite convenient. I get linked to that site sometimes when books are out of stock at the bookdepository.co.uk

And the paper DC-3 is really cool , I'll try it some day when I am really fed up with my thesis...

Which reminds me... I still have a paper model of the Millennium Falcon (Han Solo's spaceship in Star Wars IV-VI), waiting to be created

(my father even wants to help :rolleyes:

)
Millennium Falcon paper art

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arianne_nl

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 10:40am

I use Google translate a lot... especially when I'm writing papers and need to find equivalents in different languages

Just be yourself, there are enough 'others'!

Flickr

And most probably got my BA degree!! yaaaay!

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Silvio

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 3:33pm

Mh is google translation really that trustworthy? I'm used to look for an online dictionary like dict.leo.org (English) or italdict.de - I rely more on pages like these than google.

Have you ever checked Dutch-English whether it's accurate? Well, it depends on what you need, though.

Babylon sounds like a really good translator but sadly it's not for free... too bad.

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arianne_nl

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 4:12pm

It's not that I use what they tell.. my English is far better than Google's.. it's more for the "damn.. that's word I needed!"-effect ;-)

Just be yourself, there are enough 'others'!

Flickr

And most probably got my BA degree!! yaaaay!

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Nike

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Friday, June 11th 2010, 8:34pm

Sometimes when I need to know how a word is spelled I enter it in google and look what appears in the search link, and sort of double-check it by entering it.
For the translation I use random sites, not one in particular, mostly via google, but if I'm around a real dictionary, I prefer that one over digital ones via search engines

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